$100,000 on the line... I'll take a stab at it!
This was probably the hardest race prediction I've ever attempted. For a running nerd like myself, knowing as much about these athletes as I do, you'd think it wouldn't be that hard. But with this field over a marathon distance, it is so hard to call. I pretty much knew who my top 5 picks were but I couldn't decide on an order... I could realistically see any one of them winning the race. And then predicting the 6-10 was even harder because there were probably 20 guys that I knew I had chance at making those spots. So anyway, after all my considerations, I came up with the following prediction.
1. Abdi Abdirahman
2. Ryan Hall
3. Dathan Ritzenhein
4. Alan Culpepper
5. Meb Keflezighi
6. Brian Sell
7. Peter Gilmore
8. Clint Verran
9. Daniel Browne
10. Ryan Shay
So we'll see tomorrow how well I did, and I'll definitely be in front of my computer at 7:30am to watch it all go down in what will probably be the greatest US marathon race in history. As we all know, the harder a race is to predict, the more exciting it is to watch.
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